Melbourne residents angry Anthony Albanese mispronounced the city’s name

Anthony Albanese has outraged Melbourne residents by mispronouncing their city and collective name.

The opposition leader referred to Melburnians as Mel-BORE-nians in a campaign speech in the city on Wednesday morning.

Australians, and Melbourne locals in particular, skip over several letters when pronouncing the city so it sounds more like Mel-bn.

The Labor leader, who has variously been known as Alba-knees, Alba-nay-zay and Alban-ee-zee, pronounced it more like Americans, who typically say the city’s name as it is written with every letter enunciated.

‘Well, that’s it. I was going to vote for him but that’s a step too far. Absolute drivel,’ one very annoyed local…